Loud Speaker
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Loud Speaker is a play by American playwright John Howard Lawson
. It was first produced by the New Playwrights' Theatre at the 52nd Street Theatre in New York
, opening on March 2 1927. Harry Wagstaff Gribble directed, Mordecai Gorelik
designed the sets
, Eugene L. Berton composed its music, and Leonard Sillman
choreographed its dances.
John Howard Lawson
John Howard Lawson was an American writer. He was head of the Hollywood division of the Communist Party USA. He was also the cell's cultural manager, and answered directly to V.J. Jerome, the Party's New York-based cultural chief...
. It was first produced by the New Playwrights' Theatre at the 52nd Street Theatre in New York
New York City
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, opening on March 2 1927. Harry Wagstaff Gribble directed, Mordecai Gorelik
Mordecai Gorelik
Mordecai Gorelik was a theatrical designer who also wrote, produced and directed plays. He was a 1920 graduate of the Pratt Institute, and worked principally as a scene designer. However, he also designed costumes, directed lighting and taught theater...
designed the sets
Scenography
-Usage:Whilst also aligned with the professional practice of the scenographer, it is important to distinguish the individual elements that comprise the 'design' of a performance event from the term 'scenography' which is as an artistic perspective concerning the visual, experiential and spatial...
, Eugene L. Berton composed its music, and Leonard Sillman
Leonard Sillman
Leonard Sillman was an American Broadway producer. Born in Detroit, Michigan on May 9, 1908, he was the brother of June Carroll, the brother-in-law of Sidney Carroll and the uncle of Steve Reich and Jonathan Carroll...
choreographed its dances.
Characters
- Harry U. Collins
- Peterson
- Emma Collins
- Maid
- Clare Collins
- Josephus
- Johnnie Dunne
- Floradora Finnigan
- A Stranger with a Beard
- Dorothy Dunne
- Armenian Iky
- 1st Reporter
- 2nd Reporter
- 3rd Reporter
- 1st Photographer
- 2nd Photographer
- The Harlem Committee
- The Imperial Serenaders